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Friday, May 18, 2012
UPDATED: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rings In IPO, With A Hackers' Touch
With a soldering iron; a couple of capacitors, resistors, and relays from RadioShack; and quite a bit of dissembling and tinkering, a handful of Facebook software engineers (and friends) hacked the Nasdaq bell (see video below), earning themselves a full-fledged badge of geekiness. Watch live streaming video from nasdaq at livestream.com In just three days, the small team of five engineers figured out how to hack the Nasdaq bell so that the exact... read more>>
Facebook Tagged With $15B Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit On Eve Of IPO
What has this world come to when Facebook can't even enjoy its initial public offering? On the eve of the long-awaited IPO, the social network was the target of a $15 billion class-action suit that consolidated 21 claims of invasion of privacy by tracking Internet usage. Bloomberg reported that the complaint was filed yesterday in Federal Court in San Jose, Calif., covering alleged violations that took place between May 2010 and September... read more>>
Facebook-Related Jobs Listed On Mediabistro
This week, Wooga has several openings available. The Berlin-based company is hiring a localization QA analyst, a marketing manager, a game improvement specialist, a player experience manager, and a product manager for Bubble Island. Get all the details below and find more just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com. Localization QA Analyst Wooga (Berlin, Germany) Marketing Manager Wooga (Berlin, Germany) Game Improvement Specialist Wooga (Berlin, Germany) Player Experience Manager Wooga (Berlin, Germany) Product Manger - Bubble Island Wooga... read more>>
Facebook Still Dominates Google Plus On Android
Recently, by way of sponsored stories in Facebook users' newsfeeds, the social network has begun dipping advertising toes into its mobile endeavors. Smart move: According to new research released by NPD Group -- which tracks consumer usage across broadband access, content, and devices -- over the past six months, Facebook has firmly held onto its spot as the top-performing social-network on Google's Android platform, MediaPost reported. Nearly 75 percent of Android smartphone... read more>>
SecondMarket Bids Goodbye To Facebook With Interactive Timeline
Private trading platform SecondMarket had been one of the primary sources for trading stock in Facebook prior to the social network's initial public offering, and it created a farewell message in the form of an interactive timeline depicting the history of the stock. Facebook on SecondMarket includes the following information: Facebook's price per share (monthly weighted average) and corresponding estimated market capitalization from April 2008 until April 2012. Data on buyers via SecondMarket, 85... read more>>
CNBC Tracking Worth Of Major Facebook Shareholders' Stakes In Real-Time
Now that trading of Facebook stock is under way, CNBC launched a real-time tool that updates the worth of major stake-holders in the social network, based on its stock price. The CNBC Real-Time Wealth Tracker is tracking the following major Facebook shareholders: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg Accel Partners Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Digital Sky Technologies (DST Global) Former President Sean Parker Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg Goldman Sachs Mail.ru Group Valiant Capital Opportunities Elevation Partners Meritech Capital Partners Tiger Global... read more>>
Tumblr Referrals From Facebook Up 2.5X Following Upgrade For Timeline
Since upgrading for timeline and launching with open graph in April, Tumblr has seen its referral traffic from Facebook rise by more than 2.5 times. The blogging platform allows users to add content including images, videos, links, and audio to short-form blog posts. In a post on its developer blog, Facebook noted Tumblr's use of open graph action verbs posted, reblogged, liked, and replied, and its aggregations of most recent post, likes, recent... read more>>
Facebook Testing Timeline Profile Design Tweak
Some Facebook users are seeing a test of a new design for Facebook's timeline profiles, in which the profile picture moves slightly to the left, and information that usually appears below the cover image is superimposed over the cover image in white type. Our friends across the pond at allfacebook.de brought the test to our attention, noting that the user name, basic information, and the buttons for subscribe and message appear on... read more>>
Predict Facebook's Friday Closing Price On FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com
We were so proud of ourselves yesterday for posting a poll on what Facebook's closing price would be Friday following the launch of its initial public offering Friday morning. And then programmer James Proud had to upstage us with a website dedicated to the subject. Mind you, this is not a snarky way of accusing Proud of stealing our idea. FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com had nothing to do with us. TechCrunch has the background on... read more>>
Hong Kong Trading Platform: Here's $200 In Facebook Stock For Opening An Account
A new trading platform in Hong Kong is dangling $200 worth of Facebook stock, or a little more than five shares at the initial public offering price of $38 apiece, as incentive to trade via its platform. TechCrunch reported that 8 Securities will run its promotion as follows: Users must open investing accounts with a minimum amount of HK$10,000 ($1,287.69), and 8 Securities will then purchase stock in the social network on... read more>>
Facebook Testing New Design For Self-Serve Ad-Creation Tool
Facebook continues to experiment with its self-serve ad-creation tool, with the latest test offering users a list of pages, applications, and other potential destinations for ads that they might be connected to. Sister blog Inside Facebook had the details on the new design test, saying that icons and names are included for all Facebook objects that the user has administrative privileges for. The new layout being tested also provides a "getting started" sidebar... read more>>
Facebook Gives Users More Control Over Notifications
Facebook has been trying to pin down the best way to handle notifications for months and months, and its latest attempt to help users control incoming notifications is the addition of an instant option to turn them off for specific applications, groups, events, or posts. TechCrunch reported on the modifications to the drop-down menu for notifications, noting that incoming ones from apps include a yes/no option, asking users if they want to... read more>>
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